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Re: Report for 'Debian Developer, uploading' applicant Diane Trout



On Sunday 24 May 2015 07:53:36 Tobias Frost via nm wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recommend to accept Diane Trout as a new Debian Developer, uploading.
> The account name is diane.
> 
>  * Applicant background
> 
> I have been using Linux for a very long time. Possibly since Linux
> 0.97. I remember downloading Slackware over my modem and thinking this
> is so much better than Windows 3.x.  I've know I've been using Debian
> since before 2000.
> 
> Around that time I was doing MS Windows development professionally both
> in Visual Basic and in Visual C++, but as time progressed I found how
> Microsoft kept randomly changing frameworks irritating, and how little
> influence I had over what they expected developers to do. (How many
> different APIs does one company need for accessing a databases?)
> 
> After that I switched to a Debian on a laptop and started doing Python
> development. But alas, back then in the early 2000s suspend didn't work
> very well, and so I spent time using OS X and then Ubuntu.
> 
> Once Canonical tried their questionable Amazon partnership I decided to
> go back to Debian and that I should contribute to help improve the
> stability of the Debian desktop.
> 

I'm too late for the party but... ¡yeahhh! :D

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